We have decided to move to my hometown in Mississippi. We are putting our house on the market to sell at the end of this month. It is going to be crazy around here for a little while as we throw ourselves into this big move. And of course there will be some things that I will desperately (or not) miss about living away from the 4th largest city in the US (besides all my friends here):

• I will go from living in a metro area of 5.7 million people to a county with only 19,000 people total. The town I will be living in has a population of 3,000.
• The closest Starbucks is an hour away in Jackson, Tennessee.
• The closest Whole Foods is a 90 minute drive to Memphis, Tennessee.
• The town has 2 red lights so I probably won't have to concern myself with grid-lock traffic anymore!
• Since we are moving away from the Texas coast, we won't have to flee from hurricanes any longer. Oh yeah! I just realized we won't have to pay for costly windstorm insurance either. Woo hoo!
• No more quick runs to the beach only a few miles away. In my new home I will be 7 hours from the nearest beach.
• The closest Target store is 45 minutes away in Florence, Alabama.
• But I guess the biggest thing I am worried about is food. Because I love to cook and try all sorts of recipes from Bon Appetit and Epicurious. It is going to be fairly hard to find the plethora of ingredients that we take for granted here in the Houston area. But I'll figure it all out. Eventually.